Chairperson D. Eidam called the meeting to order at 4:10 p.m. in Chryst
Hall, Room 210. All departmental senators attended except those from the
Art, History, Industry and Technology, and Sociology and Anthropology
Departments. Student President P. Leahy attended for the Student Senate
and J. Milakovic attended for the Snapper.

Senate approved the 11 July 1996 meeting minutes
with no corrections. Chairperson D. Ediam reported the following changes
to today's agenda. Under item VIII, Proposed Courses, add two Computer
Science courses to the one meeting to challenge list:

CSCI375:Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality, a new four credit
hour nonGeneral Education course to be first offered in the Spring of
1997 if approved.

CSCI385:Real-Time Systems Engineering, a new four credit hour
nonGeneral Education course to be first offered in the Spring of 1997 if
approved.

Chairperson D. Eidam distributed to senators all the statements of
support that he received on behalf of candidates in today's elections.
He noted one typographical error in the current senate directory. the
email address for senator T. Kruse should be tkruse@marauder. The
Library Department has elected a new alternate, S. Anderson. He also
introduced new senators, A. Reese, S. Anderson, and T. Kruse.

Eidam has received notification of three vacancies since the mailing of
the nomination forms. Senate will fill the three vacancies during the
next meeting's voting. D. Harris has retired and senate needs to fill
her nonschool position that expires in 1997 on the Noonan Fund. B.
Nakhai has resigned as chairperson of the Academic Policies Committee;
senate must fill his position that expires in 1997 at the next meeting.
F. Erickson has resigned as a member of the University Course and Program
Review Committee. Eidam had only advertised one of the two Education
School positions on the UCPRC for today's vote.

Senate had to decide whether to proceed by filling the position that was
advertised and waiting until the next meeting to fill the new vacancy or
to fill both today. There are two nominees today. Senate moved to fill
both vacancies at today's meeting.

The Task Force on General Education is going to send senate its report on
general education in early October. At that meeting the chairperson will
keep a log of who speaks, a queue of who wants to speak, and none will
speak twice until anyone else has spoken once. None may speak unless
they are recognized. These rules are in the interest of fairness.

Some years ago, the chairperson volunteered to keep the governance manual
updated. He is no longer doing so. He has had very little success in
getting senators to provide him with disk copies of the changes that go
in the governance manual. He advised whoever does keep the governance
manual to put in hidden text when a change was made.

The chairperson regrets to tell senators that for the first time, senate
ran a $300 deficit over the past year.

Student Senate president P. Leahy announced student senate will meet on
Thursday for the first time this semester at 6:30 p.m. in room 161 in the
SMAC. Student senate will meet every other thursday. He met with his
executive board last week. He has also talked to the students at the
Snapper to maintain communications with them. Faculty senators may feel
free to give Leahy a call on any matter. Chairperson Eidam said he would
call Leahy soon toascertain the student representatives to senate
committees.

President J. Caputo said the new academic year is off to a good start.
Faculty chairpersons report that events are going smoothly. the usual
problems seem to be getting resolved more quickly this year. Students
are complaining as usual but MU is able to solve their complaints fairly
quickly.

Two things remain from last year. Immediately at the conclusion of
commencement in May, several faculty reported to Caputo that they had had
trouble finding parking. MU has become aware that it has not provided
reserved parking for faculty attending graduation ceremonies. In the
future MU police will provide a special parking sticker for faculty who
robe for graduation so they may park in reserved parking spaces.

Second Cputo has received formal notice from the Department of the Army
that it intends to close the ROTC program at MU by August 1997. The MU
ROTC program has been in a state of decline for a long time in terms of
student participation and has not been popular. While Caputo does not
like to see MU close any program, he does understand the Army's position.

Caputo introduced MU's new Vice-President for Student Affairs, Robert
Thomas. He comes to MU from Westminster College in Western
Pennsylvania. He has professional experience with and his doctorate from
Indiana University at Bloomington. He wrote his doctoral dissertation in
the area of student retention.

Vice President for Academic Affairs F. McNairy welcomed senators back to
campus. She reminded senators of the Fall Convocation next Thursday at
4:30 PM in Lehr Dining Hall. there will be good food and a chance to
meet the president and your colleagues.

Last year academic affairs departments responded to questions from the
Provost. Dean's Council has reviewed the answers to the questions and
determined some themes that the faculty has identified as major areas of
concern or major goals that MU should be addressing. Academic Affairs
has a plan that will take MU to the year 2,000. The Provost will return
to the respective schools to share the feedback with the faculty.

MU will have its first open house this semester, Saturday, September 28.
It is earlier than usual so as not to compete with high school events.
MU also does not want to compete with its own events. Departments will
receive more information from the Provost.

Vice President for Student Affairs R. Thomas said that he was grateful to
be a Millersville. He said he had worked in both public and private
institutions and praised the reputation of Millersville. He said that he
had completed his fourth week on the job and found the work exciting. He
is looking forward to getting to know people better in the future.

Vice President for Advancement G. Eckert discussed MU publication: MU has
distributed this year's Cultural Calendar to the faculty. The calendar
includes the dates of lectures, cultural, and theme events. The many
events are evidence of the cultural diversity on the campus. Eckert
demonstrated a copy of the new Admissions Viewbook.

Eckert said that he was having ongoing discussions about the concept of
Student Services with the Sunday News. The paper does not seem to report
that the lower courts agree with MU's position on Student Services.

Eckert said he will allow the President to report on the capital campaign
progress during the President's convocation talk. However, in the area
of new revenue opportunities, MU is getting increasing requests from
corporations regarding research, training, and retraining of the
workforce. Eckert sees the requests as a great opportunity and market
for MU in the future. It is a chance for MU and the community to come
together. As revenues decrease from traditional sources, corporation
could supply MU with more revenue.

Eckert said that Homecoming will be October 19, 1996. At 10:30 AM, MU
will host an open reception in honor of G. Reighard. The May
commencement next year will be May 17, 1997.

Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs J. Stager presented the
preliminary Fall enrollment figures. MU is up slightly for full time
undergraduates compared with last year. It is down in terms of part time
students. Graduate students are up. The total head count is about 75
below last year. MU will freeze the figures in about two to three
weeks. At that point Stager will give a final report.

Academic Standards Committee chairperson J. Piperberg said he did not
have the figures in front of him but the results for the recent committee
meeting were on par with what happened in the past in terms of the number
of students whose appeals have been accepted and denied. MU did have
students enter under the academic amnesty rules.

Senate held its annual elections using the approved voting algorithm.
Chairperson Eidam and senate officers posted all nominations for all open
committee positions received prior to the meeting on the blackboard.
Senators then completed additional nominations from the floor. A D.
Hutchens/B. Nakhai motion to elect the candidates for uncontested
positions by acclamation passed. The chairperson distributed ballots for
senators to use to vote for the remaining contested positions. Senators
were to vote for only those candidates that the voter wanted to serve in
an open position. Senators then voted for their preferred candidates for
each committee opening by ranking candidates on the ballot from most to
least preferred. After the meeting, senate officers counted the votes.
Attachment B shows the election results.

The Academic Policies Committee recommended changes in MU's class
attendance/grading policy (see Attachment A, pp
3991-3993, of the 16
April 1996 senate minutes). Senate returned the item to the agenda from
the last meeting. After considerable discussion of the motion, a motion
to move the previous question passed with a 2/3rd majority. The motion
did not pass.

Senator R. Benson will move that senate refer to the Academic Policies
Committee the determination of a requirement that a department that
offers an undergraduate degree must specify and distribute to students
the degree's requirements.